Thinking About Movies
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Thinking About Movies, Third Edition is a comprehensiveguide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watchmovies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, thetext offers the critical building blocks required to understandfilm as an important narrative and cultural form.
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Thinking About Movies, Third Edition is a comprehensiveguide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watchmovies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, thetext offers the critical building blocks required to understandfilm as an important narrative and cultural form.
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Thinking About Movies, Third Edition is a comprehensiveguide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watchmovies critically and analytically. Intended for the beginner, thetext offers the critical building blocks required to understandfilm as an important narrative and cultural form.Guides readers through basic approaches to film analysis suchas authorship, genre, race, class, gender, film theory, audience,and reception
Updated to include discussion of a diverse selection of classicand recent films, from Citizen Kane and Murder, My Sweet to Crashand King Kong
Features new coverage of important current trends in theindustry, and recent developments in film theory andcriticism
Accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/lehmanfeaturing resources for both academics and students
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Thinking About Movies “
- Preface- Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
- Fatal Attraction and Scarface
2. Narrative Structure
- Jurassic Park and Rashomon
3. Formal Analysis
- Rules of the Game and The Sixth Sense
4. Authorship
- The Searchers and Jungle Fever
5. Genres
- Sin City and Gunfight at the OK Corral
6. Series, Sequels, and Remakes
- Goldfinger and King Kong 1933 and 2005
7. Actors and Stars
- Morocco and Dirty Harry
8. Audiences and Reception
- A Woman of Paris and The Crying Game
9. Film and the Other Arts
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Nosferatu
10. Film and its Relation to Radio and Television
- Richard Diamond: Private Detective, Peter Gunn, and Victor/Victoria
11. Realism and Theories of Film
- The Battleship Potemkin and Umberto D
12. Gender and Sexuality
- The Silence of the Lambs and American Gigolo
13. Race
- Out of the Past, LA Confidential, and Boyz N the Hood
14. Class
- Pretty Woman and The People Under the Stairs
15. Citizen Kane: An Analysis
- Citizen Kane
16. Globalization, Digitalization, Convergence: Current Trends
- The Matrix
- Glossary
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Lehman
Peter Lehman is Director of the Center for Film, Media andPopular Culture at Arizona State University, Tempe. He is author of Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative RockMasculinity (2003) and Running Scared: Masculinity and theRepresentation of the Male Body, New Edition (2007), and editor of Pornography: Film and Culture (2006). He is former presidentof the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.William Luhr is Professor of English at SaintPeter's College. Among other works, he is author of Raymond Chandler and Film (2nd edn., 1991), editor TheMaltese Falcon: John Huston, Director (1995), and co-editor of Screening Genders (2008). He is Co-Chair of the ColumbiaUniversity Seminar on Cinema and InterdisciplinaryInterpretation.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Lehman
- 2008, 3. Aufl., 416 Seiten, Maße: 19 x 2,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1405154039
- ISBN-13: 9781405154031
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.03.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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"What is most striking is the structure of the text. [Its] relationship to other media is also a welcome addition to this study. THINKING ABOUT MOVIES is an effective text for an introductory film course at the college level. It offers many good insights, and is filled with interesting essays on a variety of cinematic genres." ( RogueCinema.com , December 2008)
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"What is most striking is the structure of the text. [Its] relationship to other media is also a welcome addition to this study. THINKING ABOUT MOVIES is an effective text for an introductory film course at the college level. It offers many good insights, and is filled with interesting essays on a variety of cinematic genres." ( RogueCinema.com , December 2008)
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